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Reduce the amount of time you waste online using HabitLab

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One of the easiest ways that we can waste our time on is by browsing aimlessly without having defined intentions. Our habits determine are the behaviors that we are doing most of the time and taking the time to build better habits will most likely lead to better lives. This includes building better habits online. A Chrome extension from Stanford is to help us with that.

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Save up time and focus better on YouTube by hiding recommended videos with DF YouTube

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Have you ever gone to watch a short informational or educational YouTube video, only to find out that two hours have passed, and you are still watching many other related videos? If that’s your case, then you are not alone. We all get trapped into this process of mindless watching many YouTube videos without any prior intention. Luckily, there is a really beneficial Chrome extension, called DF YouTube. It hides recommended videos on YouTube and gives you the opportunity to only focus on the video that you are currently watching. Continue reading

Minimize context switching to improve the quality of the work that you do 

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Source: business2community.com

In a podcast interview, the famous author and professor Cal Newport while talking about the Deep Work, he mentioned among other things that people should strive to minimize the number of context switches from one task to another, because this way we are able to save a lot of time and attention that can be invested in valuable things. Continue reading

Improve your concentration with brain dump

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Source: hellolittlehouse.com

A long list of to-dos that travels into our heads is not something that we want to have. When we have a lot of things to remember, it can be overwhelming, mental energy consuming and it can drastically decrease our ability to concentrate on the tasks at hand. This alone should be as a suffice factor to convince us that we should do something that can help in this matter. Continue reading

How to gain more clarity and focus about your goal

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When your goals are clear and compelling, they usually inspire you to take action and taking action is the single most important factor that differentiates people who dream from the people who do make things happen. As a result, it is very important to have clear goals and also focus on them, and this article is written with the purpose of giving you a way on how to achieve that clarity.

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